Add Autoplay suggestions at startup and fix Autoplay after playlist ends.

[Spamm00r]

Hi,

I have an issue with the autoplay feature. I'd like to have an option in SmartTubeNext to automatically start playing the suggestions. Right now it starts up and waits for input. And only if I start playing something from the suggestions, it will keep playing suggested videos.

I want to have an option to start make SmartTubeNext always keep playing a video from the suggestions feed unless I specifically play another video.

Also right now, if I send a video to play to SmartTubeNetx, it adds this video to the Play List and when it is finished playing this playlist, it just stops. And waits for me to choose what to do next. I know that I can choose to repeat the same vidoe, or the same playlist, but I want to play the playlist just once and after that play videos' from suggestions.

I want it's default behaviors to be always playing the suggested videos until I tell it to play something else, and when that's finished to resume playing suggestions again.

So that I don't have to interact with the UI at all as long as I'm happy with the suggested videos being played.

Please add this feature.

[Spamm00r]

Youtube added this feature "Autoplay at Startup" to Youtube TV a few months ago:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/09/12/youtube-tv-autoplay-tv-guide/

The aim is to have classic TV experience, when you turn on the TV, it should already be playing some thing from your suggestions, and only if you want it to play something else, then you need to change the video or channel.

Also after the video or playlist ends, it should automatically start playing suggestions. So that minimal user interaction is required.

Unfortunately there are also many who have exactly the opposite demand and have made issues and want to stop autoplay entirely. So please add an option so one can choose how SmartTube behaves.

I like how the old Smart Youtube TV App behaves, but that app now starts showing ads and cant be used anymore.

So please add and allow autoplay at startup and autoplay suggestions after playlist ends. That will make the app so much more useful especially for older people, who do not want to send every video they want to the app everytime.

Thanks!

[Spamm00r]

I noticed that autoplay does work on playlist, like if you add videos to your "Watch Later" playlist, it will autoplay next video until all videos are played. I want SmartTube to behave like this also for the videos in the suggestions, uploads and other sections. And also find further videos from these sections and not only play the few videos that are listed when starting to play these videos.

[Spamm00r]

I read in the code that there is a section that allows to

Autoplay suggestions. That is exactly what I want. But how do you activate this?

`

` @Override public void onSuggestionItemClicked(Video item) { setPlayEnabled(true); // autoplay video from suggestions

    saveState();
}

`

[alexanderdevm]

How to enable this feature, auto play from suggested?

[Spamm00r]

Fire TV Stick updated and there is now official Youtube APP on the STick, which does exactly that and I'm not egtting any ads at the moment. So I have disabled Smarttube as of now.